SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Mick Jagger Cracks Bay Area Jokes at Levi’s Stadium Stones Show SF drug overdoses hit a two-year low in June; the Motel 6 near Ocean Beach might become an affordable housing complex; and Mick Jagger busted out some solid Silicon Valley wisecracks at Wednesday night’s Rolling Stones concert.
SF News FBI’s Sheng Thao Raid Investigation Has Now Expanded to the Oakland Police Department It may just be a legal technicality, or it may be a sign that the FBI smells something fishy with the Oakland PD, as the latest federal subpoena in “Sheng Thao raid-gate” asks for a slew of records from the Oakland Police Department.
Business & Tech Salesforce Work-From-Home Party Is Over, Employees Required to Be in Office Three to Five Days a Week SF’s largest private employer Salesforce is bringing the hammer down on its pajama-clad workers who’ve gotten used to remote work, as the company will start requiring employees to work three to five days a week in the office, and they’ll be monitoring security badge scans.
SF News Doctors and Users Explain Why Fentanyl Users Are Hunched Over So Often We’ve all observed the tell-tale sign that someone is high on fentanyl in that they’re bent over and frozen in the so-called “fentanyl fold,” and a new Chronicle report speaks to medical experts and users about why this happens.
SF News Day Around the Bay: 49ers’ Star Receiver Brandon Aiyuk Demands to Be Traded The Sunset Night Market is getting ready to double in size; a big political fight just broke out between Supervisors Hillary Ronen and Aaron Peskin; and the 49ers’ leading receiver Brandon Aiyuk has requested a trade amidst a contract standoff.
SF News SFPD Seeks Suspect Who Violently Attacked Disabled Person After Harassing a Waymo Vehicle A person SFPD described as "cognitively impaired" suffered a fractured skull in a recent late-night attack where the suspect also tried to start a fight with a self-driving Waymo, and the police are seeking the brown-haired male suspect seen here.
Business & Tech Elon Musk Claims He’s Moving X Headquarters to Texas, Because He’s Mad About a New Trans Rights Law Just days after we learned that Xitter is trying to sublease its entire mid-Market headquarters, Elon Musk says he’s moving the company to Texas, and claims it’s because of a new California law about the rights of trans kids.
SF News Strict New Wildfire Law Might Ban Plants and Bushes Within Five Feet of Homes in Wildfire-Prone Areas California fire officials are considering implementing a sweeping ban on bushes, brush, or any combustible materials within five feet of homes in areas considered high risk for wildfires.
SF News 24-Year-Old Woman Charged With Intentionally Running Down and Killing Vacaville Police Officer The Vacaville Police Department is mourning the loss of 32-year-old Officer Matthew Bowen, who was struck from his motorcycle and killed last week by a woman who was not only allegedly intoxicated, but is also accused of intentionally running Bowen down.
SF Politics SFMTA Wants to Put a Bike Lane in Chinatown, Chinatown Leaders Not at All Happy With the Idea Right after the SFMTA’s embarrassing need for a do-over on the Valencia Street bike lane, the agency is now pushing for a bike lane in Chinatown. But Chinatown community groups don’t want it, and say the idea “just doesn’t make sense.”
SF Politics SF Mayoral Candidates Keep Wanting to Be Seen Around Firefighters, Fire Department Reportedly Getting Sick of It All five major candidates running for Mayor of San Francisco are putting on a full-court press chasing the SF firefighters’ union endorsement, but the candidates’ very frequent visits to local fire departments may be burning their chances of winning brownie points.
SF News In Goodwill Gesture, Gavin Newsom Sending More Than 60 State Police to Republican Convention In the wake of Saturday’s assassination attempt on Donald Trump, Governor Gavin Newsom is sending five dozen Highway Patrol and state police officers to help keep the calm at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee.
SF Politics Trump Flags Come Out in Lafayette After Assassination Attempt on Trump A small rally covered a Lafayette highway overpass with Trump flags and a small handful of Trump supporters, with Saturday’s attempt on Trump’s life continuing to resonate across the Bay Area.
Business & Tech World’s First Commercial Hydrogen-Powered Ferry Spotted on the Waters of the SF Bay Today A ferry boat fueled entirely by hydrogen and oxygen hit the waters of the Bay Area Friday morning, and the zero-emissions boat will start carrying passengers on July 19, free of charge for the first six months.
SF News Heat Wave in Santa Clara County Now Blamed for 19 Deaths Since July 1 The temperatures have been above 90 degrees pretty much every day of July in Santa Clara County, and the marathon heat wave is believed to be responsible for 19 people dying from the heat there since July 1.
SF News Pac Heights Getting Speed Bumps to Deter Sideshows, Because Yes, There Are Sideshows in Pac Heights A rash of recent sideshows in the tony neighborhood of Pacific Heights has led the city to install speed bumps to prevent the motor mayhem at Divisadero and California streets.
Business & Tech Elon Musk’s Twitter/X Now Looking to Sublease Entire Market Street Headquarters It could be a sign of financial trouble for Musk’s Twitter, and it’s definitely a bad sign for downtown SF’s office space recovery, that the social media company just put all 800,000 square feet of its Ninth and Market headquarters up for sublease.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Grace Cathedral Laser Light Show Begins Again Tonight The FBI has unsealed their criminal complaint against an alleged Berkeley arsonist; we have fascinating new insights into how the neighborhood Dogpatch got its name; and the annual Grace Cathedral laser light show begins again Thursday night.
Arts & Entertainment Zany French Pop Dance Soiree 'Bardot A Go Go' Celebrates Its 25th Anniversary Bastille Day Party This Saturday It’s the silver anniversary faire la fête of the French discotheque Bardot A Go Go’s annual Bastille Day Party this Saturday, and its co-founder looks back on 25 years of crepes, cigarettes, and 1960s period apparel.
SF News Alleged ‘Waymo Slasher’ Charged With Slashing the Tires on 17 Waymo Self-Driving Cars A 36-year-old man who’s apparently not fond of self-driving robotaxis allegedly went on a tire-stabbing spree against them, and stands accused of slashing Waymo tires 17 times in a three-day span, though the cars’ cameras caught him on video.
SF Politics Alameda County Judge Up for Federal Bench Gets Grilled by Republicans Over Trump Criticism, Trans Issues Alameda County Superior Court Judge Noël Wise is in line for a big promotion to the federal judiciary, and as such, was lambasted by attention-seeking Republican senators Wednesday. But she’s still likely to be confirmed by the Democrat-controlled Senate.
SF Politics Governor Newsom Abruptly Revokes That State Assistance He Offered to Alameda County DA Pamela Price In a very public rebuke of Alameda County DA Pamela Price, Governor Gavin Newsom has suddenly yanked the extra state attorneys he’d offered to Price, saying, “Your office has yet to make use of these resources.”
Arts & Entertainment Giant New Statue of Woman in Jogging Gear Goes Up Along Embarcadero There’s a towering new statue between the Ferry Building and Pier 1 of a nine-foot-tall woman dressed in jogging apparel, and the work “As Sounds Turn to Noise" will be there on loan from a gallery in Los Angeles for the next six months.
SF News Current COVID Uptick Appears to Be Coming With New Symptoms, Like Stomach Issues California is experiencing much the same summer COVID upturn as the rest of the nation, and there’s some evidence that the symptoms of the new virus variants now include gastrointestinal issues too.
Arts & Entertainment Oakland First Fridays Reportedly at Risk Again, Amidst Rising Event Costs and Lower Foot Traffic After returning from a four-month hiatus earlier this year, we have a report that the popular First Fridays event in Oakland may be on the rocks again, with financial concerns over permitting costs and fewer vending spots.